Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Key88 SF <key88sf(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32
Date: 2003-03-25 02:46:18
Message-ID: 200303250246.h2P2kIE25463@candle.pha.pa.us
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OK, patch applied to document PQfreemem() for notify.

PQfreeNotify wasn't even documented, but I kept it in for binary
compatibility, and added a #define to map it to PQfreemem().

I updated various interfaces to use PQfreemem() rather than free().

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > The problem with that is the new versions are still going to reference
> > PQfreeNotify, and then we still can't remove it. I think we need the
> > macro for PQfreeNotify pointing to PQfreemem, but keep the PQfreeNotify
> > function around for a release or two, then remove it, and remove all
> > documentation about it in 7.4.
>
> Too complicated. Just implement PQfreemem independently and tell people
> to use it. Please don't remove documentation just because a feature is
> deprecated. How are people supposed to do the conversion if they can't
> find information about what they are supposed to convert from?
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
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